significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households … members (e.g., children) or to promote marriage and fertility …

lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed in less than ten years, no spousal benefits are paid. The spousal … primary worker and the secondary worker. We examine whether these couples, who have more to gain from extending their marriage …

before they enter marriage. The correspondence assumption provides a plausible account of the genesis of household technology …In an efficient household if the spouses' time inputs are perfect substitutes, then spouses will "specialize …" regardless of their preferences and the governance structure. That is, both spouses will not allocate time to both household …

particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests …

quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …

household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility function defined over time use suggest no effect … on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model shows only slight evidence that spouses shared …